Has_many :through & << & STI

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I’ve got a pretty crazy has_many :through going.

My join table is set up like this:

Table name: memberships

id :integer not null, primary key

member_of_id :integer

member_of_type :string(255)

user_id :integer

And in my User model, I’ve got:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :memberships
has_many :terms, :through => :memberships, :source
=> :term, :conditions => “memberships.member_of_type = ‘Term’”

def add_term(term)
unless terms.exists? [“memberships.member_of_type = ? AND
memberships.member_of_id = ?”, “Term”, term]
terms << term #Line 50
end
return true
end

end

Any time I call terms << term (in this method or in the console or
whatever) I’m getting:

NoMethodError (You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.constantize):
(eval):7:in before_save' /vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:301:insend’
/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:301:in
callback' /vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:206:increate_or_update’
/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb:2151:in
save_without_validation!' /vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb:927:insave_without_dirty!’
/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/dirty.rb:82:in
save_without_transactions!' /vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/transactions.rb: 110:insave!’
/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/
abstract/database_statements.rb:66:in transaction' /vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:79:intransaction’
/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:98:in
transaction' /vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/transactions.rb: 110:insave!’
/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:
118:in rollback_active_record_state!' /vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/transactions.rb: 110:insave!’
/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb:898:in
create!' /vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/ has_many_through_association.rb:60:in<<’
/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb:1801:in
with_scope' /vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/ has_many_through_association.rb:60:insend’
/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/
has_many_through_association.rb:60:in <<' /vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/ has_many_through_association.rb:56:ineach’
/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/
has_many_through_association.rb:56:in <<' /vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/ abstract/database_statements.rb:66:intransaction’
/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:79:in
transaction' /vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/ has_many_through_association.rb:55:in<<’
/app/models/user.rb:50:in `add_term’

Anyone have any idea’s? I’m running edge rails from last week.

Thanks,
BJ